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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Amir Hermelin <amir@montilio.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PG_reserved bug
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:50:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126125020.GL8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003e01c3b41b$22140580$1d01a8c0@CARTMAN>

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Amir Hermelin wrote:
> Ok, fair enough.  According to what you say, this behavior won't change in
> 2.6.  So, I'm still left with my second question: since I do access the
> pages from several places in my module, and I want to use the refcount field
> of the struct page (and not have to wrap the pages in another structure) so
> I know when my page is no longer referenced, how can I make sure it's 'safe'
> to not use the reserved bit?

It looks like you'll have to wrap the pages in another structure.
The refcounts for reserved pages are effectively meaningless.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-26 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-26 10:09 Amir Hermelin
2003-11-26 10:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 12:45   ` Amir Hermelin
2003-11-26 12:50     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-11-26 13:07       ` Amir Hermelin
2003-11-26 13:09         ` William Lee Irwin III

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